What is recorded here
Fairy forts in Lickane hide inside ordinary fields, wearing conifers and stone fences as camouflage. The earthen bank still stands one metre high, encircling a small world that people forgot or refused to see. What is forgotten is not lost; it is waiting for someone steady enough to remember it back into the world.
In undulating pasture. Circular area (31m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.25m) N->WNW. Stone field fence truncates NW edge of enclosure. Bank stone faced and incorporated into field fence system to E. Interior and bank planted with coniferous trees.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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